Ethics in relation to the practice of medicine had continuity from the time of Hippocrates (ca. 460-377 BC) to the 1970s focusing on the physician-patient relationship and moral obligations of beneficence and nonmaleficence. In the 1970s developments such as the gene splicing method and in vitro fertilization (IVF) created concerns about the adequacy of these long-established moral obligations ...

Relatively little consideration has heretofore been given to the interaction between Western clinical research ethics and non-Western ethical expectations. How should any conflict that might arise when a biomedical investigator and a research subject come from different cultural settings and have different ethical expectations be addressed? Which ethics should govern such trans-cultural clinica...

Are new concepts needed in biomedical ethics to keep pace with the developments in postHuman Genome Project genomics? This thesis examines the challenges that developments in post-Human Genome Project (HGP) genomics pose to the established concepts and practices of – Western world – biomedical ethics. These challenges are relevant to the various roles that ethics plays, as for example, its role...

Relatively little consideration has heretofore been given to the interaction between Western clinical research ethics and non-Western ethical expectations. How should any conflict that might arise when a biomedical investigator and a research subject come from different cultural settings and have different ethical expectations be addressed? Which ethics should govern such trans-cultural clinica...

1 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 2 Department of Continuing and Community Care, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Address for Correspondence: Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School Of Medicine, Dean’s Offi ce, 1E Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block, Level 11, Singapore 119228. Email: [email protected]...

1. Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada 2. Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 3. Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada 4. Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Universität Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 5. Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford Unive...